High schools: Upper Darby gets top county seed for District wrestling

Upper Darby's wrestling team earned the highest seed of any team in the county for the District One team Duals that start Thursday. The Royals showed off why Tuesday.

Tenzin Samphel scored a first-period pin at 220 pounds, Mike Kitan pinned at 182 pounds and Matt Carney (138) and Jimmy Bongard (145) added wins by technical fall to lead UD to a 58-7 Central League rout of Springfield.

Garnet Valley 55, Haverford 12

Sean Lyons (145) and John Taffe (120) won by fall for the Jaguars (12-3, 7-0), Ryan Manbeck (106) and Dale Durkee (113) added major decisions and John Dambro (152) won by technical fall as Garnet Valley remained unbeaten in league meets via a romp.

James Oraschewsky (170) and Chip Rossino (195) picked up all of the Fords' points with pins.

In the Catholic League:

Bonner-Prendergast 46, Roman Catholic 30

Justin D'Arcy got things started in style with a pin at 132 pounds for the Friars (3-13, 1-6) and Ryan Kiefer (145), Seamus Flynn (170), Anthony Logiurato (106) and Mike Wolf (113) also pinned their way to victory as Bonner-Prendie got off the schneid in PCL meets.